Fear among Syrians: A Proposed Cutoff Score for the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 Scale
COVID-19 pandemic has led to psychological health issues one of which is fear. This study validates the Arabic version of the fear of COVID-19 scale and suggests a new cutoff score to measure fear of COVID-19 among the Syrian Population. A total of 3989 participants filled an online survey consistin...
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| author | Fatema Mohsen Batoul Bakkar Salma Khadem alsrouji Esraa Abbas Alma Najjar Marah Marrawi Youssef Latifeh |
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| description | COVID-19 pandemic has led to psychological health issues one of which is fear. This study validates the Arabic version of the fear of COVID-19 scale and suggests a new cutoff score to measure fear of COVID-19 among the Syrian Population. A total of 3989 participants filled an online survey consisting of socio-demographic information, the fear of COVID-19 scale, the patient health questionnaire 9-item, and the generalized anxiety disorder 7-item. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was used to define cutoff scores for the fear of COVID-19 scale in relation to generalized anxiety disorder 7-item and the patient health questionnaire 9-item. The Cronbach α value of the Arabic fear of COVID-19 scale was 0.896, revealing good stability and internal consistency. The inter-item correlations were between [0.420–0.868] and the corrected item-total correlations were between [0.614–0.768]. A cutoff point of 17.5 was deduced from the analysis. According to the deduced cutoff point, 2111(52.9%) were categorized as extreme fear cases. This cutoff score deduced from this study can be used for screening purposes to distinguish community members that may be prone to developing extreme fear of COVID-19. Therefore, early preventive and supportive measures can then be delivered. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8d938e2dd52e4e4a9cd11120f827a4e92022-12-21T19:15:45ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-01173Fear among Syrians: A Proposed Cutoff Score for the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 ScaleFatema MohsenBatoul BakkarSalma Khadem alsroujiEsraa AbbasAlma NajjarMarah MarrawiYoussef LatifehCOVID-19 pandemic has led to psychological health issues one of which is fear. This study validates the Arabic version of the fear of COVID-19 scale and suggests a new cutoff score to measure fear of COVID-19 among the Syrian Population. A total of 3989 participants filled an online survey consisting of socio-demographic information, the fear of COVID-19 scale, the patient health questionnaire 9-item, and the generalized anxiety disorder 7-item. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was used to define cutoff scores for the fear of COVID-19 scale in relation to generalized anxiety disorder 7-item and the patient health questionnaire 9-item. The Cronbach α value of the Arabic fear of COVID-19 scale was 0.896, revealing good stability and internal consistency. The inter-item correlations were between [0.420–0.868] and the corrected item-total correlations were between [0.614–0.768]. A cutoff point of 17.5 was deduced from the analysis. According to the deduced cutoff point, 2111(52.9%) were categorized as extreme fear cases. This cutoff score deduced from this study can be used for screening purposes to distinguish community members that may be prone to developing extreme fear of COVID-19. Therefore, early preventive and supportive measures can then be delivered.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8916619/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | Fatema Mohsen Batoul Bakkar Salma Khadem alsrouji Esraa Abbas Alma Najjar Marah Marrawi Youssef Latifeh Fear among Syrians: A Proposed Cutoff Score for the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 Scale PLoS ONE |
| title | Fear among Syrians: A Proposed Cutoff Score for the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 Scale |
| title_full | Fear among Syrians: A Proposed Cutoff Score for the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 Scale |
| title_fullStr | Fear among Syrians: A Proposed Cutoff Score for the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 Scale |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fear among Syrians: A Proposed Cutoff Score for the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 Scale |
| title_short | Fear among Syrians: A Proposed Cutoff Score for the Arabic Fear of COVID-19 Scale |
| title_sort | fear among syrians a proposed cutoff score for the arabic fear of covid 19 scale |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8916619/?tool=EBI |
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